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Potential benefits and optimization of cool-coated office buildings: A case study in Chongqing, China

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  • Zhuang, Chaoqun
  • Gao, Yafeng
  • Zhao, Yingru
  • Levinson, Ronnen
  • Heiselberg, Per
  • Wang, Zhiqiang
  • Guo, Rui

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Increasing envelope facet albedos considerably reduces solar heat gain, thus yielding building cooling energy savings. Few studies have explored the potential benefits of utilizing cool coatings on building envelopes (“cool-coated buildings”) based on life-cycle cost analysis. A holistic approach integrating the field testing, building energy simulation, and a 20-year life-cycle-based optimization was developed to explore cool-coated building performance and the maximum net savings of optimal building envelope retrofit and design. Experimental results showed that applying cool coatings to a west wall of an office building in Chongqing, China reduced its exterior surface temperature by up to 9.3 °C in summer. Simulation results showed that in Chongqing, making the roof and walls cool could reduce annual HVAC electricity use by up to 11.9% in old buildings (with poorly insulated envelopes) and up to 5.9% in new buildings. Retrofitting old buildings with a cool roof provided the net savings per modified area with present values up to 42.8 CNY/m2; retrofitting a new building with a cool roof or cool walls was not cost-effective. Optimizing both envelope insulation and envelope albedo can achieve 5.6 times the net savings of optimizing the insulation only, and 1.6 times that of optimizing albedo only.

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  • Zhuang, Chaoqun & Gao, Yafeng & Zhao, Yingru & Levinson, Ronnen & Heiselberg, Per & Wang, Zhiqiang & Guo, Rui, 2021. "Potential benefits and optimization of cool-coated office buildings: A case study in Chongqing, China," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 226(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:226:y:2021:i:c:s0360544221006228
    DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2021.120373
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